Software Engineer (Backend)

About us

EDMO is an AI-powered company that provides enrollment-centric solutions to universities,

colleges, and higher education institutions. By streamlining repetitive tasks—such as document verification, transcript evaluation, SOP/essay reviews, and applicant matching.

EDMO enables its clients to process student applications faster and more accurately. Its intelligent workflows

not only reduce administrative workload but also empower admission advisors to focus on personalized guidance and student engagement.

With features like AI-powered chatbots, Photo ID verification, GPA calculator, and transfer credit evaluation, EDMO ensures transparency and efficiency across the enrollment journey. Institutions using EDMO services report significant time savings, improved decision-making, and

enhanced student satisfaction.

At its core, EDMO is built to reimagine & streamline admissions—making them smarter, quicker, and more human-centric.

Website - https://goedmo.com/

Position Overview

We're seeking an exceptional Lead Software Engineer / Senior Tech Lead who can energize and guide a team of brilliant engineers while driving rapid, high-quality product development using AI and innovative technologies. The ideal candidate brings deep full-stack and backend

engineering expertise combined with strong leadership capability and a hands-on approach to architecture and delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of 5–8 senior engineers across AI, Salesforce, and full-stack development

• Drive technical strategy and architectural decisions — including backend, API design, and system design — for EDMO's product portfolio

• Own and evolve backend architecture using Node.js / NestJS and front-end solutions in React or Angular

• Define and implement telemetry, observability, and monitoring standards (logging,tracing, alerting) across services

• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and technical excellence

• Manage sprint planning, code reviews, and technical delivery timelines

• Collaborate closely with product management and design teams

• Guide technical hiring and team scaling decisions

• Ensure code quality, security, and performance standards

• Lead technical discussions with university clients and stakeholders

• Drive adoption of best practices, tools, and development methodologies

Required Qualifications

Experience & Leadership

• 8+ years of software development experience with 3+ years in technical leadership roles

• Must have: Proven track record of leading high-performing technical teams

• Must have: Experience energizing and motivating senior engineers to achieve exceptional results

• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and DevOps practices

• Excellent communication skills with ability to translate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

• Experience with performance management, career development, and team building

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to make decisions under pressure

Technical Stack — Must Have

• Node.js and NestJS — production-grade backend services, microservices, and API design

• TypeScript — Good Have

• React or Angular — front-end development and component architecture

• Backend and system architecture — designing scalable, maintainable, distributed

systems

• Telemetry & monitoring — hands-on experience with logging frameworks, distributed tracing (e.g. OpenTelemetry, Datadog, New Relic, or similar), and alerting pipelines

• Cloud platforms — GCP preferred; AWS or Azure acceptable

• Databases — PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or equivalent; Redis for caching/queuing

• CI/CD — GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, or equivalent pipelines

Additional Technical Background

• Strong background across multiple domains: AI/ML integration, web development, cloud- native architecture• Microservices patterns, API gateway design, event-driven architectures

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in EdTech, SaaS, or B2B technology companies

• Background in AI/ML or emerging technologies

• Experience scaling engineering teams from startup to growth stage

• Knowledge of the Salesforce ecosystem and integrations

• GCP certifications or demonstrated GCP production experience (Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, GKE)

• Experience building and operating observability stacks (dashboards, SLOs, on-call runbooks)

• MBA or advanced degree in technology or business

• Track record of successful product launches and customer implementations

• Experience working with US-based clients and distributed teams

Leadership Philosophy We Seek

• Servant Leadership: Empowering team members to achieve their best work

• Technical Excellence: Setting high standards while maintaining development velocity

• Growth Mindset: Continuously learning and helping others grow

• Results-Oriented: Delivering measurable business outcomes through technology

• Cultural Builder: Creating an inclusive, innovative, and collaborative team environment

Growth Opportunities

• Path to VP of Engineering

• Opportunity to build and scale EDMO's India engineering organization

• Lead major strategic partnerships and technical initiatives

• Drive innovation in AI-powered educational technology

We are looking for an experienced Sr. Software Engineer to drive the design, architecture, and delivery of scalable B2B products from our Bangalore office. This role requires a strong hands-on technologist who can lead a team of engineers, make sound architectural decisions, and collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, DevOps, and Customer Success teams.

As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping the technical direction of our platform, ensuring high-quality engineering practices, and delivering enterprise-grade solutions to our customers. This job can quickly grow into a Technical Lead position.

**Key Responsibilities**

🔹 Technical Leadership

Own end-to-end technical architecture and system design for core product modules.

Drive scalable, secure, and high-performance backend and frontend solutions.

Conduct design reviews, code reviews, and ensure adherence to engineering best practices.

Evaluate and introduce new technologies where appropriate.

🔹 Team Management

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 5–6 engineers.

Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and innovation.

Support hiring, onboarding, and mentoring.

🔹 Product Delivery

Collaborate closely with mangement to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Drive sprint planning, estimations, and delivery timelines.

Ensure predictable, high-quality releases aligned with business goals.

🔹 Quality & DevOps

Champion CI/CD practices, automated testing, and DevOps processes.

Ensure system reliability, uptime, security, and performance monitoring.

Participate in incident management and root cause analysis.

🔹 Stakeholder Collaboration

Work cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Success, and Support teams for enterprise deployments.

Communicate technical decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

**Required Qualifications**

4+ years of software development experience in product-based companies.

Strong experience with modern backend technologies (e.g., Java, Node.js, Python, or similar technologies).

Experience with frontend frameworks (React, Angular, or similar).

Solid understanding of microservices architecture and RESTful APIs.

Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Strong knowledge of databases (SQL and NoSQL).

Experience building scalable B2B SaaS products.

**Preferred Qualifications**

Experience with multi-tenant SaaS architecture.

Familiarity with enterprise integrations (SSO, APIs, third-party systems).

Experience handling high-scale systems with large enterprise clients.

Exposure to security and compliance standards (ISO, SOC2, GDPR).

**Key Competencies**

Strong problem-solving and system design skills.

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Ability to balance hands-on coding with leadership responsibilities.

Strong ownership mindset with attention to detail.

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, product-driven environment.

**What We Offer**

Competitive compensation and performance bonuses.

Opportunity to work on cutting-edge B2B products.

Collaborative and growth-oriented culture.

Health insurance and wellness benefits.

If you are passionate about building scalable B2B platforms and leading high-performing engineering teams, we would love to hear from you.

Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant (a member of the NASDAQ-100 and one of Forbes World's Best Employers 2025) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. 

This role is part of Cognizant IOA (Intuitive Operations and Automation) — and more specifically, a product team with its own origin story. We started as Matterway, a German startup building automation software from scratch. We were acquired by Cognizant, but we kept our team, our culture, our pace, and our way of working. We move like a startup, think like a startup, and now do it with the backing of a global company. 

We combine human expertise with intelligent automation, ML operations, and digital experience solutions to help technology and digital-native companies build smarter, more adaptive operating models. 

What's the opportunity? 

We are looking for Senior Product Engineers to join our team. We're a tight crew of 5 senior engineers, from different corners of the world. We're hiring 3 more people, and those people will shape what this team becomes. 

We're building a platform to support the agentification of our operations. You'll work across a suite of products including a cloud platform for process optimization, desktop application, browser extension, and specialized AI agents. 

This is genuinely frontier work: we don't follow AI trends, we implement them. New model drops on a Monday; we've prototyped with it by Wednesday. 

We believe this is the most exciting time to join. Be part of the founding R&D talent in this area and help set the technical bar for everything that comes next. 

What will you be doing? 

Your day-to-day responsibilities: 

• Design and evolve the core architecture of our platform 
• Set technical standards and take ownership of complex projects end-to-end 
• Work on a well-architected, fast-evolving TypeScript codebase using technologies such as React, Node.js, Electron, and GraphQL 
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to solve challenging technical and business problems, with real autonomy 
• Participate in the full development lifecycle: scoping, design, estimation, coding, testing, debugging, code reviews, maintenance, and support 
• Evaluate and implement proofs of concept using the latest AI tools and models 

You will know you're successful if: 

• You develop projects independently until they deliver their intended business value 
• You keep top-notch software quality standards about design, implementation, and documentation 
• You're the person who brings something new to the team's radar, a model, a technique, a tool, before anyone else has heard of it 

What makes you a great fit 

Must-haves: 

• Excellent English (C1+) with exceptional written and verbal communication 
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript across frontend and backend, including building and maintaining Node.js-based services 
• Experience in frontend development using modern frameworks such as Vue.js or React 
• Knowledge of any E2E testing framework such as Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, Cypress 
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of deliverables 
• Strong technical fundamentals, genuine intellectual curiosity, and a drive to keep getting better 
• You follow AI closely, not just as a user but as someone who reads the papers, watches the releases, and has opinions. You're excited about where this is going and want to be building at the edge of it 

Nice-to-haves: 

• Familiarity with AI-coding tooling (Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, etc.) 
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure or GCP) and infra-as-code deployment 
• Having built or maintained CI/CD pipelines or workflows, especially GitHub actions 

Why join us? 

• Be at the cutting edge of AI agents and applying LLMs to real-world use cases, not in theory but in production 
• Work on hard problems with high agency: your ideas get heard; your decisions get shipped 
• Join a small but growing internationally distributed team. 
• giving you real influence over how it evolves 
• The resources of a global company with the speed and culture of a startup 
• Remote-first set-up, with the option to work from one of our 13 locations in India: Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Gurgaon, Noida, Kolkata, Kochi, Coimbatore, Bhubaneswar, Mangalore, and Indore 
• Flexible working hours 
• Collaborative, pragmatic engineering culture focused on outcomes 
• Fast-growing team within Cognizant, with access to global resources and real career opportunities 

About the Role

Pendo is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead teams building core product capabilities across Analytics, Guides, and Platform services. These are the systems that power how hundreds of millions of end users experience the software.

In this role, you will drive execution against business objectives, direct complex initiatives from kickoff through delivery, and build a team that operates with clarity and focus. You will set clear expectations, delegate effectively, and partner closely with product, design, and senior engineering leadership to keep teams aligned and moving. You default toward action, push teams to deliver value daily, and actively use AI tools as part of how you work.

If you're energized by directing high-impact teams, developing strong engineers, and building a culture where craft and velocity coexist, this role is a great fit.

What You'll Do

Team Leadership & Hiring

• Create an environment where engineers are encouraged to take risks, experiment, and challenge the status quo.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers through clear expectations, coaching, and timely feedback.
• Own hiring end-to-end, partnering with recruiting to attract and close top engineering talent.
• Build an inclusive, high-performing team culture grounded in ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Delivery & Execution

• Maintain a high bar for velocity, predictability, and quality.
• Own team execution against product and engineering goals.
• Partner with Product and Design to define roadmaps, scope work, and deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Identify and remove blockers, manage risks, and ensure strong planning and prioritization.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with product, design, infrastructure, and other engineering teams to deliver cohesive customer experiences.
• Align team priorities with broader organizational goals and strategy.

Operational Excellence

• Drive improvements in system reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Establish strong practices around monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement.

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 3+ years of experience managing and growing engineering teams.
• Proven track record of hiring and building high-performing teams.
• Experience delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives in a product-driven environment.
• Strong technical foundation in backend, distributed systems, or full-stack development.
• Proven ability to lead teams through ambiguity and change while maintaining execution.
• Actively uses AI tools in day-to-day work and helps drive adoption across teams.
• Strong communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience working on analytics products, user-facing SaaS platforms, or data-intensive systems.
• Experience managing teams across both frontend and backend domains.
• Familiarity with modern cloud environments and scalable architectures.
• Experience working in distributed teams across multiple time zones.

Software Development Engineer III (SDE3)

Location: Mumbai / Bangalore | Experience: 4+ Years 

About SolarSquare:

At SolarSquare we are building the Home-Energy brand of future India. We help homes switch to rooftop solar and move away from traditional coal electricity. We are a full-stack D2C residential solar brand - designing, installing, maintaining (after-sales) and financing solar systems for home-owners across India. 

In 3 years we have scaled to become the leading residential solar brand in India. We are obsessed with quality, customer service and innovating to make it simple for homes to switch to solar. We are looking for leaders to join us in this mission. 

Know us a bit better through these links: 

• How SolarSquare is Simplifying Residential Solar in India I Ft. Shreya Mishra and Neeraj Jain
• Featured by TIME Magazine- as World’s Top Greentech Companies of 2025 
• Solarsquare Raises $40 million in Series B Funding Round
• How SolarSquare has a chance to become a home energy brand in India
• Techcrunch SolarSquare article
• Elevation - Podcast with SolarSquare Founders
• Startup by IIT Grads Helps Indian Homes Run on Zero Electricity, Earns Rs 200 Crore in Revenues
• The Climate Conversations ft Solar Square
• Elevation Capital - SolarSquare

What this role is

You are an engineer who leads projects at the scope of a service or major subsystem.

That means: when a problem lands on your desk, it's usually ambiguous. Your job is to turn it into a clear problem statement, design a system to solve it, ship it through to production, and own how it behaves once it's there. You'll work with one or two engineers on most projects, and you'll be the technical person product, ops, and other engineering teams talk to about that domain.

You're not a senior individual contributor who only writes code for assigned tickets. You're not a tech lead who's stopped writing code. You're the person between those two — still hands-on, but increasingly the one shaping what gets built.

What you'll do

• Solve 2–4 complex problems a year end-to-end: shape the problem, design the system, ship it, monitor it.
• Design single-service systems independently. Define API contracts, data models, scale and reliability requirements. Document and review your design with peers before building.
• Turn ambiguity into clarity. Take half-formed product tasks and partner with PMs to define what's actually being built. Push back when the ask doesn't make sense.
• Stay hands-on. Write code that goes into production. Drive code reviews. Debug across service boundaries. Refactor when the codebase needs it.
• Mentor 1–2 junior engineers. Be someone's first reviewer. Pair when it helps. Take their growth as your responsibility, not a side activity.
• Be in hiring. Interview candidates regularly. Help shape the interview bar for your function.
• Own outcomes, not output. Track the business or operational metric your work moves. If it doesn't move, that's a problem you own — not a problem you delivered to.

What we're looking for

• Over 4 years of professional experience in software development, specifically focused on solving large-scale technical challenges.
• Expert-level proficiency in at least one major programming language (such as Java, GO, Rust, NodeJS etc) with a focus on writing scalable, maintainable, and unit-tested code.
• Strong command of object-oriented design, design patterns, and the creation of intuitive class-level interfaces.
• Hands-on experience with multi-threading, concurrency, and Test-Driven Development (TDD).
• Deep understanding of relational databases (Postgres) and various NoSQL technologies like HBase, Elasticsearch, or Aerospike, Cassandra
• Comprehensive knowledge of the full software development life cycle on Linux platforms.
• Proven ability to build highly scalable applications that manage complex business logic and massive datasets.
• A proactive, "go-getter" mindset characterized by high energy and dedication to task ownership.
• Experience thriving in fast-paced startup environments with a strong sense of commitment and accountability.
• A passionate drive to tackle complex, real-world problems through innovative engineering.
• You've made and defended technical decisions, picked up problems no one assigned, or built things people use that no one asked for.
• Strong fundamentals in your primary stack — concurrency, data modeling, debugging across systems, performance work. We're stack-agnostic for the right person.
• Experience designing systems with explicit attention to scale, reliability, and cost — not just functional correctness.
• Collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders to monitor project outcomes and iteratively refine features based on real-world impact.

Location: Bangalore

Department: Engineering

Reports to: SVP

Experience required: 6+ years

About Tracxn:

Tracxn (Tracxn.com) is a Bangalore-based product company providing a research and deal sourcing platform for Venture Capital, Private Equity, Corp Dev, and professionals working around the startup ecosystem.

We are a team of 600+ working professionals serving customers across the globe. Our clients include Funds like Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, GGV Capital, and Large Corporations such as Citi, Embraer & Ferrero.

Founders

• Neha Singh (ex-Sequoia, BCG | MBA - Stanford GSB)
• Abhishek Goyal (ex-Accel Partners, Amazon | BTech - IIT Kanpur)

About Technology Team: 

Tracxn's Technology team is 60+ members strong and growing. The technology team is subdivided into multiple smaller teams, each owning one or more services/components of the technology platform. Ours is a young team of motivated engineers with a minimal management structure where almost everyone is actively involved in technical development and design activities. We have a team-centric culture where the ownership and responsibility of a feature or module lie with a team compared to an individual.

We value ownership, continuous learning, consistency, and discipline as a team.

Our Tech Stacks:

We work on an array of technologies, including but not limited to backend and frontend systems such as Java, Python, Spring Boot, Node.js, ReactJS, Next.js, Webpack, and Storybook; cloud and serverless platforms like AWS, etc; data and infrastructure technologies such as Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch), MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, and Ansible; large-scale web crawling solutions; modern data pipelines and ETL workflows; and AI/ML-driven projects.

Job Overview:

We are looking for experienced software engineers with 6+ years of overall software development experience, including backend development and proven people-management skills. The ideal candidate will lead the engineering team(s), drive technical excellence, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers
• Own technical planning, architecture discussions, and execution
• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders
• Drive best practices in software development, testing, and deployment
• Conduct code reviews and ensure high engineering standards
• Manage delivery timelines, resource planning, and technical risks
• Support hiring, onboarding, and performance management of engineers

Job Requirements :

Professional Experience

•  Proven experience leading or managing software engineering teams
• Track record of delivering complex, scalable software systems
• Experience driving technical initiatives and influencing architectural decisions
• Strong collaboration experience with product, design, and cross-functional teams.

Technical Leadership & Management

•  Ability to mentor, coach, and grow engineers across different experience levels
• Experience conducting performance reviews and providing technical feedback
• Strong ownership of team delivery, timelines, and quality
• Experience balancing hands-on technical work with people management

Backend & System Architecture Expertise

• Strong proficiency in modern backend architectures, design patterns, and microservices architecture.
• Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language (e.g., Java, Python, etc.)
• Solid understanding of API design principles and implementation
• Hands-on experience with relational and non-relational databases and knowledge of data pipelines and data warehousing concepts.

Technical Competencies

• Strong system design and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of caching strategies, performance optimization, and scalability
• Understanding of data modeling and query optimization
• Familiarity with search and indexing technologies
• Understanding of security best practices in backend systems

Culture:

• Work with performance-oriented teams driven by ownership and passion.
• Learn to design systems for high accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.
• No strict deadlines, focus on delivering quality work.
• Meritocracy-driven, candid culture. No politics.
• Very high visibility regarding which startups and markets are exciting globally.

Strong Engineering Manager / Lead Profiles

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Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have minimum 8+ years of overall Software Engineering / Development experience with a strong IC foundation.

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Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have 2+ years of formal Engineering Manager experience with direct people-management responsibility (informal Senior Engineer / Tech Lead experience managing a team does not count)

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Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have directly managed 4–6+ engineers, including 1:1s, performance management, growth plans, promotions, mentoring, and team development.

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Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must own technical direction and delivery for an engineering team/pod, including architecture, system design, code/PR reviews, execution planning, and engineering quality.

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Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have strong backend/software engineering experience with hands-on technical depth in building APIs, services, integrations, and scalable systems; specific language/framework can vary.

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Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have experience owning production operations, including on-call, incident management, debugging, and postmortems for their area.

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Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have experience driving cross-functional alignment with Product and Design and translating ambiguous business/product requirements into scalable technical solutions.

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Mandatory (Company) – Must be from a Product Company / Startup, particularly B2B SaaS, Fintech, Payments, or similar technology product environments. (Refer Target Company List)

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Mandatory (Role Fit) – Role is 80% people/team management and 20% technical/IC involvement;

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Preferred (Education) - Tier 1 engineering college

Strong Engineering Manager / Lead Profiles

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Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have minimum 8+ years of overall Software Engineering / Development experience with a strong IC foundation.

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Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have 2+ years of formal Engineering Manager experience with direct people-management responsibility (informal Senior Engineer / Tech Lead experience managing a team does not count)

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Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have directly managed 4–6+ engineers, including 1:1s, performance management, growth plans, promotions, mentoring, and team development.

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Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must own technical direction and delivery for an engineering team/pod, including architecture, system design, code/PR reviews, execution planning, and engineering quality.

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Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have strong backend/software engineering experience with hands-on technical depth in building APIs, services, integrations, and scalable systems; specific language/framework can vary.

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Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have experience owning production operations, including on-call, incident management, debugging, and postmortems for their area.

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Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have experience driving cross-functional alignment with Product and Design and translating ambiguous business/product requirements into scalable technical solutions.

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Mandatory (Company) – Must be from a Product Company / Startup, particularly B2B SaaS, Fintech, Payments, or similar technology product environments. (Refer Target Company List)

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Mandatory (Role Fit) – Role is 80% people/team management and 20% technical/IC involvement;

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Preferred (Education) - Tier 1 engineering college

Strong Engineering Manager / Lead Profiles

2

Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have minimum 8+ years of overall Software Engineering / Development experience with a strong IC foundation.

3

Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have 2+ years of formal Engineering Manager experience with direct people-management responsibility (informal Senior Engineer / Tech Lead experience managing a team does not count)

4

Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have directly managed 4–6+ engineers, including 1:1s, performance management, growth plans, promotions, mentoring, and team development.

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Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must own technical direction and delivery for an engineering team/pod, including architecture, system design, code/PR reviews, execution planning, and engineering quality.

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Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have strong backend/software engineering experience with hands-on technical depth in building APIs, services, integrations, and scalable systems; specific language/framework can vary.

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Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have experience owning production operations, including on-call, incident management, debugging, and postmortems for their area.

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Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have experience driving cross-functional alignment with Product and Design and translating ambiguous business/product requirements into scalable technical solutions.

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Mandatory (Company) – Must be from a Product Company / Startup, particularly B2B SaaS, Fintech, Payments, or similar technology product environments. (Refer Target Company List)

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Mandatory (Role Fit) – Role is 80% people/team management and 20% technical/IC involvement;

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Preferred (Education) - Tier 1 engineering college

Job Description:

Head of Engineering — Chennai (Onsite)About the Role

Job Details

Position: Head of Engineering

Department: Engineering

Experience: 6–8 Years

Employment Type: Full-time

Location: Chennai, On-site

Salary: Up to ₹24,00,000 per annum

About the Role

We’re looking for a Head of Engineering to take end-to-end ownership of engineering for a fast-moving product. You’ll be responsible for architecture, execution, product quality, engineering culture, and team growth.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You’ll spend approximately 60% of your time coding and reviewing code and 40% on product, people, and engineering leadership.

What You’ll Do

• Own engineering end to end, including architecture, development, delivery, quality, and hiring.
• Stay hands-on with the codebase, spending roughly 60% of your time writing and reviewing code.
• Establish and continuously improve the engineering workflow: how the team plans, builds, reviews, ships, and measures.
• Improve development velocity and reduce cycle time without compromising product quality.
• Drive AI-assisted software development across the engineering team using Claude Code and similar agentic coding tools as a core productivity lever.
• Establish practical systems and workflows that demonstrate measurable improvements in engineering throughput.
• Work closely with the founders on product strategy, technical trade-offs, priorities, and what to build next.
• Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing engineering team.

What We’re Looking For

• 6–8 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience taking at least one product from zero to launch.
• Experience building and scaling at least one product to a large user base.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Python and Node.js.
• Comfortable working with React Native / Expo.
• Strong understanding of PostgreSQL and database fundamentals.
• Previous experience leading a small engineering team.
• A leadership style based on ownership and technical example, rather than simply assigning tickets.
• Daily experience with agentic coding tools, with the ability to demonstrate how they have improved development speed and team throughput.
• Strong product instincts and the ability to form opinions about user problems, not just technical implementation.
• Based in Chennai or willing to relocate.

How We Work

We operate with high pace, high ownership, and short feedback loops.

You’ll be expected to get close to the product, understand the users, make decisions quickly, and ship within your first week.

If you enjoy building products from the ground up, staying close to the code, and using AI to fundamentally improve how engineering teams work, we’d love to hear from you.

How to Apply

Join Aura Gold and be part of building a high-performing team from the ground up!

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Chennai, Tamil Nadu (Chennai, Chennai District): Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Language:

• English, Tamil , Hindi (Required)

Location:

• Chennai, Tamil Nadu (Chennai, Chennai District) (Required)

Work Location: In person